Jacob Milgrom

Jacob Milgrom , Hebrew יעקב מילגרום, (Born February 1, 1923 in Brooklyn , New York City , † June 5, 2010 in Jerusalem ) was an American - Israeli rabbi and religious scholar .

biography

After attending school, he studied at Brooklyn College and the rabbinical seminary of the Jewish Theological Seminary . After his ordination as a rabbi , he worked as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley , from 1965 . There he was also head of the Department of Middle East Studies until his retirement in 1994 .

As a religious scholar , he dealt with the commandments of ritual purity in Judaism and the Tahara . From his Bible research he concluded that the prohibition of homosexuality would only apply to Jewish men.

In particular, however, he was regarded as the world's leading researcher and as an authority on 3rd Book of Moses , the Leviticus . As a representative of conservative Judaism in rabbinical literature , he was the author of the five-volume JPS Commentary on the Torah, alongside von Nahum Sarna , Baruch Levine and Jeffrey Tigay .

After his retirement he moved to Israel in 1994 , where he died in Jerusalem as a result of an intracerebral hemorrhage .

Cult and conscience: the Asham and the priestly doctrine of repentance , 1976, ISBN 90-04-04476-0
Leviticus 1-16 , 1991
Leviticus 17-22 , 2000
Leviticus 23-27 , 2001
Jacob Milgrom, David Pearson Wright, David Noel Freedman, Avi Hurvitz: Pomegranates and golden bells: studies in biblical, Jewish, and Near Eastern Ritual, Law and Literature in Honor of Jacob Milgrom , 1995, ISBN 0-931464-87-0

personal data
SURNAME	Milgrom, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	US-Israeli rabbi and religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	February 1, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH	June 5, 2010
Place of death	Jerusalem